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...substance directly threatens public health. In fact, 41 states currently have fish-consumption advisories due to mercury poisoning. And, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8 percent of women of childbearing age have mercury in their blood exceeding levels deemed safe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—clearly some unsettling statistics...
...seems that the EPA is willing to do some backpedaling. Recently, the agency caved into industry lobbies and weakened previously-set regulatory policies. In a document released by the government late last year, the EPA decided to revise its December 2000 findings (in which it placed mercury under the most stringent regulations of the Clean Air Act alongside other neurotoxins such as asbestos, chromium and lead) to place mercury under a significantly less stringent provision of the Act which deals with pollutants less toxic to humans, such as smog...
Several years ago, I lost two of my closest friends—both smokers—to tobacco-related diseases. Their deaths motivated me to quit smoking myself and to begin a campaign to protect bar and restaurant workers from secondhand smoke, an EPA class-A carcinogen that kills over 53,000 noan-smoking Americans every year...
...block this move, EPA staffers deleted the global warming section from its report...
According to internal EPA documents leaked to the national media, the Bush administration tried to include references to the study in the agency’s report on the state of the environment...